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And this [is] the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'
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And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan.
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And all the company send, and speak, unto the sons of Benjamin who [are] in the rock Rimmon, and proclaim to them peace;
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and Benjamin turneth back at that time, and they give to them the women whom they have kept alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead, and they have not found for [all of] them so.
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And the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.
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And the elders of the company say, `What do we do to the remnant for wives -- for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?'
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And they say, `A possession of an escaped party [is] to Benjamin, and a tribe is not blotted out from Israel;
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and we -- we are not able to give to them wives out of our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [is] he who is giving a wife to Benjamin.'
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And they say, `Lo, a festival of Jehovah [is] in Shiloh, from time to time, which [is] on the north of Beth-El, at the rising of the sun, by the highway which is going up from Beth-El to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.'
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And they command the sons of Benjamin, saying, `Go -- and ye have laid wait in the vineyards,
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and have seen, and lo, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances -- then ye have gone out from the vineyards, and caught for you each his wife out of the daughters of Shiloh, and gone to the land of Benjamin;